Before 5pm, Talks & lectures, Current affairs

Ann Cvetkovich discusses queer archives and the importance of recording traumatic cultural experience.

August 2012 saw the inaugural Edinburgh International Culture Summit, an event that brought together Culture Ministers and officials from over 30 nations for a series of conversations about forging international dialogue through culture. Initiated by the Edinburgh International Festival in partnership with the British…

The Internet is the greatest store of human knowledge that has ever existed. But it is also a shopping mall, a video arcade and a Pandora’s Box. Tom Standage, digital editor of The Economist, and Emily Bell, director of the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, discuss the Internet’s effect on…

As we spend more time online or attached to a mobile device and with increasing amounts of information being generated and captured, Jon Oberlander, Professor of Epistemics at the University of Edinburgh, explores the cost to privacy of this new technological power. Chaired by Guardian journalist Aleks Krotoski.

Author and broadcaster Paul Mason outlines the ways in which technology has enabled global protest movements and asks how the old political models of ruling and resisting are being undermined. Chaired by Professor William Sweeney. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

British scientist, writer and broadcaster Susan Greenfield asks us to consider how technologies may be changing the human brain, both for good and for bad. Chaired by Alison Elliot, Convenor of the Church of Scotland Guild. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Psychiatrist Andrew Powell explores the ways that technology affects relationships. As depression rapidly becomes the greatest burden of illness in developed countries, he examines safeguards for emotional and spiritual well-being. Chaired by Reverend Richard Coles, writer of TV comedy Rev. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

Aleks Krotoski, social psychologist and presenter of Radio 4’s Digital Human, untangles the World Wide Web, asking how much of a revolution it really is. Are we in danger of letting Google and Facebook take over our lives, and can we reclaim control over the machine? Chaired by Robert Dawson Scott. Speech-to-Text Reported…

Jesse Schell, Distinguished Professor of Entertainment Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and technology entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl discuss the gamification of design and its potential for widespread influence. Chaired by writer Ben Hammersley.

Author and journalist James Harkin uses the Moleskine diaries phenomenon to explore what our desire to identify with niche product, media and culture brands can tell us about ourselves. Chaired by Robert Dawson Scott.

In the face of today’s ongoing technological revolution, author and journalist Ben Hammersley examines how we must consider today what we do not know for tomorrow. Chaired by journalist Robert Dawson Scott. Speech-to-Text Reported event.

A series of talks at Langside Library covering a variety of topics.

Professor of Communication, Arts and Religion Jolyon Mitchell hosts a discussion with historian, broadcaster and author Bettany Hughes and Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, on the relationships between research and the media and the demands of addressing different audiences.

Amy Lamé and David Coke have a natter about the Vauxhall and its history and culture.

Ann Cvetkovich looks at the possibilities of a queer community politics and how aspects of queer life and intimacy are depathologised to create new modes of creative survival.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations brings together a panel of experts to discusses the state of the housing sector as it faces increasing pressure from welfare reform and financial constraints. Speakers include Minister for House and Welfare Margaret Burgess; John Hocking of Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust; and…

Terre Thaemlitz reads from Soulnessless – Introduction and discusses whether seeing transexuality as an unbecoming rather than a becoming would allow a kind of deprogramming in relation to ideas of the self, the soul or religion.

A full day of discussions and performances based on the Sunday papers, with commentators, musicians, actors and poets bringing to life the day's news, section by section. Dress code? Smoking jackets and Sunday best, of course.

The People's Palace host this series of talks that given more insight into life in Glasgow.

Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.

Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.